Friday, May 04, 2012

RealClimate


But back to the hockey stick. Mike has weathered some rather intense scrutiny and criticism over the years, mostly over the details of a paper nearly 15 years old. Yet the basic conclusions of the "hockey stick" remain, and indeed have been strengthened by subsequent work. Most will be aware, for example, that the conclusion that the past few decades are likely the warmest of the past millennium — i.e. the conclusion of the best-known of Mike's papers in Nature and Geophysical Research Letters –has never been seriously challenged
---SPSmith

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